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Show J THE CITIZEN t ow t0 encouraSe t'iat n every possible way. We of thousands of disbanded soldiers, and many ave hundreds home in such great numbers might eared that their return a greater supply of labor re industry by furnishing, suddenly, for. I am going to try to attract them ere vill be demand is room dll, (hidden wealth of our mountain ranges, 'where there ces$ai& for ail. Immigration, which even the war has not stopped, aliji L up- our shores hundreds of thousands more per year from Wellfe I intend to point them to the gold and silver )Wded Europe. f cri& ait f0r hem in the West. ell th" miners for me that I shall promote their interests to ost of my ability; because their prosperity is the prosperity nation; and, said he, his eye kindling with enthusiasm, we rove, in a very few years, that we are indeed he treasury ' I am go'n , C- world. today would do well to ponder upon Lincoln's of what constitutes money policy, and his clear conception t ssj tjje solid basis of finance. aphis? fjie nations credit depends largely on her western mines and if it tbu time it is highly important that precious metal mining be is h er every encouragement to increase production. r statesmen 1 I eratr. CANCELLING THE WAR DEBTS. so-call- ed . ic The American Federation of Labor has gone on record as favoring the ownership of railroads by the government. This is a step in the direction of the Plum plan, which is a step towards socialism and ultimate bolshevism. Under the Plum plan the government would buy the roads and turn them over to a commission controlled by railroad employes to operate. The fight is on and it behooves all of the people to take sides and let it be known where they stand. Much complaint about securities is being heard in certain quarters based on the contention that they are the source of unfair competition with other classes of paper. In 1918 there were enough men in the United States with taxable incomes above $300,-00- 0 a year to make a tofal of nearly one billion dollars of such ins. comes on which they paid income taxes and By 1920 the number of incomes reported for taxation at above $300,000 had fallen off 53 per cent! And the total of taxable incomes in these large tax-exem- . faring the past few weeks American citizens have been put an certain vitally interesting facts in regard to the ip4sesson u Kcropment of the situation brought about by the existence of the yF&t'jf more than $10,000,000 owed the United States by her allies late war. On June 9 at least one Washington correspondent, 3veirinmice Todd, published the statement, which has not been denied, at Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Eliot Wadsworth, formerly Morgan & Company, had' been holding conversations with Sir jiddand Geddes, British ambassador, on these debts, which involved JprbJosed suspension of payment of interest for a period of fifteen aal? r The Salt Lake Tribune published in the McKay tower of silence, recently traced the life history of the ice industry, in one of its editorials, going back for one hundred and sixteen years in its ardor to tell of the great benefit to mankind the economic use of ice has been. But it failed, as usual, in tracing its genealogy, to disclose that manufactured ice, which today is supplanting the natural product of winter, is selling in Salt Lake to the consumer for the old war-tim- e price of 70 cents a hundred pounds, while over in Denver it is being delivered to the homes for 40 cents. Since reutrn-in- g to Zion, following a trip over half of the continental United States, the editor of The Citizen has about arrived at the conclusion that Salt Lake is the premiere profiteering center of the west on the part of quasi-publcorporations and industries. . rest urn 5 ars a week later America was informed that the :re anss to frame legislation which will empower the st berefary of the treasury to settle the whole subject of international tecddebledness, presumably by some method of refunding. j This is a matter which vitally concerns all America now enormous war taxes, theatre taxes, excess profit taxes thre d ajl the galaxy of taxes from Alpha to Omega which the Wilson ind ministration saw fit to assess. If this country is to grant to the preor less bankrupt governments of her allies any such conces-rhiconsthe postponement or cancellation of the war indebtedness, Id. ij people should know it and know why this most extraordinary conhftorjis to be granted. . A little more than will be asked strug-inljinglund- er pt , sur-tajee- units had dropped from $992,000,000 to $392,000,000! What had happened in those two years? What had wiped out and reduced their more than half of the countrys had ? The answer is the income by two-thirbonds. transferred their investments to tax-fre- e multi-millionair- es ds multi-millionair- es . true that conditions create sentiment ; but it is equally and more importantly true that sentiment creates conditions. There is It is a psychology that governs the affairs of humanity enmasse the same as it governs the affairs of the individuals. If you think hard times you are apt to get them. If the masses think hard times, the masses will get what they go after. ; as I acit i LET GEORGE DO IT. 1 A recent ruling of the Kansas court of industrial relations provides that women doing mens work are entitled to the same wages as men. This may or may not be a move in the direction of full equality for women. The implied implication that women may dig ditches and pitch hay and receive the same remuneration as men workers in similar callings, is likely to be resented by the gentler sex. osec sec; the milk barons in a way that should and strong enough to take the matter the proper authorities and call a halt to the unholy profiteer- The Citizen has exposed teise some man big enough with ing stunt that is daily depriving many children and infants of a tkfPer and sufficient supply of this necessary food. But no man seems been equal to the occasion and so far it has jft for George to take the initiative with George still scoring the barrier for a the good start. It has been proposed to bring Mlk barons before a grand jury, but it appears no gent of legal ttainments cares to assume the responsibility for such a move, while mouths janjr of them, especially those with a large family, and many c fettl and to j buy milk for at 50 cents per gallon, realize the injus-jfand of the milk mans toll, and sputter and threat and bluster lD nothing but pay the price. profits made b of present and war-tim- e and dairyman for twenty years in Salt Lake, pbliihecl in The Citizen last week, the rumor of a grand jury do n has been started again. If it is a case of let George f, pferlians is ready and perhaps he is not. Time alone George & Since the revelation , itJeorge L. Parkin, a With the edict of congress to disband 70,000 enlisted soldiers staring the nation in the face and with President Hardings signature secured, it is a consoling thought to remember that we still have left a very good navy and an army of 150,000 men, and Jack Dempsey, undefeated champion slugger of the world, to fall back upon. Chief Burbridgc has given himself and his department a coat of no one belily white whitewash in his annual report. Of course lieves the city is spotlessly clean, and the chief is fooling no one, not even himself. But there is a city election coming on this fall and it is well to make preparations in advance. With two commissioner-ship- s inside coming up for a tussle it appeals strongly to those on the that it would be wise to keep Salt Lake as the Democratic stronghold of the state, and ready for eventualities when the next state election reports. rolls around. Hence these self-congratulat- ory in-r3Fti- tell. The Washingon Post says the Republican party made a respectable showing last November? Is a mob respectable? We were lynched ; thats what we were. Omaha Excelsior. |